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I enjoyed sicario
I think im looking forward to 2.
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Hotel Transylvania 3
6.5/10
Sicario 2 Day of the Soldato
7/10
Were these on the flight over, or have you got sick of seeing us Brits already?!
Plane. There was a third film I really can't remember.
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Mathilda may.
Thats what made it great.
Nuff said.
BC.
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Dec 8, 2018 - 12:10 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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THE GRINCH (2018) - 8/10
A lively, colorful expansion of the original television special which, even at three times the length, doesn't overstay its welcome. A few new characters are added, a couple of traditional Christmas carols are sung (including a Pentatonix rendition of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”), Cindy-Lou Who (Cameron Seely) gets an expanded role, and there is an extended coda that goes beyond where the television version stopped. None of this harms the piece.
Some inventive gadgetry for the Grinch, and the wry dialogue delivered by Benedict Cumberbatch, are definite enhancements. And I could look at the computer animation of the Grinch's bright green fur all day. (I remember when Pixar touted all the work they had done to get the fur right on the characters for MONSTERS INC. (2001). Now it's SOP for every studio--Universal/Illumination in this case.) Danny Elfman's score makes for pleasant, slightly mickey-mousey listening.
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Mathilda may.
Thats what made it great.
Nuff said.
BC.
That what makes it the SECOND best movie of ALL TIME!
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Dec 8, 2018 - 12:50 PM
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Tall Guy
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The Cold Eyes of Fear - 6/10
At least two of the points are for the pulsating, screeching (in a good way) Morricone score, which of course is why I nabbed the bluray in Fopp the other day. What gives this film its main problem is the dubbing, which really doesn’t work. A Spanish actor is given a Carson cockney accent, an Italian actor an upper class English one, an American (McCain in OUATITW and Il Grande Silencio’s comedy sheriff) one that wavers between the two and Fernando Rey god knows what accent as a judge who spends the entire film in one room, mostly on the telephone. Probably the work of a couple of hours for him at Cinecitta one afternoon.
As a film from 1971 set in London the cars are a real joy to behold, and the film opens with a long drive past the then landmarks with about a zillionth of the current traffic, congestion charge or not. The fight scenes are largely risible with a glancing tap having astonishing results.
This film isn’t without its charms, but it isn’t a first rate giallo by any stretch of the imagination.
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Carson is a Cockney?!
I always.imagined.him speaking the King's English. A true upper-class twit.
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Bob "Posters of Death" DiMucci has entered henry territory with all those generous 7 and 8 ratings.
I'm predisposed to only watch films that I think I'm going to like. I usually guess right. Life's too short to subject myself to films that I'm unlikely to enjoy.
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Carson is a Cockney?!
I always.imagined.him speaking the King's English. A true upper-class twit.
Ya, What an absolute shower!
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Isle of Dogs
7.5/10
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That sounds utter shite oblic.
Like a cheap strait-to-dvd-reduced-bin gangster film?
Or maybe a cartoon film about dogs? 
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It's a good animated film about dogs.
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They Shall Not Grow Old
9.5/10
That Peter Jackson thing with the WW1 footage restored from grainy, jerky, eroded footage to smooth, colorized stuff. That's something I usually hate but it actually looked really good and worked very well in making the war more immediate and getting across the humour in particular of the soldiers on screen. Details like heavy canon being fired causing the roof slates of a nearby building to cascade off were remarkable to see. Sometimes in correcting it the footage looked a touch animated but I assume that was trying to fix the impossible in parts. The story, told only through the voices of those that served was very touching and at times grim. Definitely worth a watch.
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